Environmental science major Ben Tumolo ’13 spent last summer as a “visiting scientist” in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he conducted research on fish populations to determine where the coral reefs were most stressed.
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Green thumbs
Green zebra tomatoes, jalapenos, and squash are just a few of the vegetables sprouting in LC’s greenhouse, thanks to the Green Thumbs Club.
A corps of 10 to 15 students has resurrected the neglected greenhouse near Hobbs Hall and will soon be transplanting their young plants to a garden on Faculty Drive.
Bringing down mountains
A series of films examining our food, energy, and culture continues Wednesday with Coal County, which exposes the destructive nature of mountain top mining. Each film begins at 6 p.m. in Hopwood Auditorium with a short discussion to follow.
From Australia to Uganda
About 70 LC students will be studying abroad this summer in programs exploring Australia, Costa Rica, the European Union, Quebec, South Korea, St. Lucia, and Uganda.
Australia: The Exciting Culture of Down Under, led byDr.
Creating wetlands
Environmental science students have been working on creating wetlands at Elon Elementary in neighboring Amherst County.
Students in Dr. Brooke Haiar and Tom Shahady’s classes have teamed up with third-graders in Melissa Busse’s class.
Training teachers in watershed science
Lynchburg College has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Studies Program.
The grant will provide $50,000 per year for three years to support an effort to integrate professional training in watershed science for teachers and watershed educational experiences for students.
A week in the wilderness
Seventeen incoming first-year students will spend Aug. 17-21 in the great outdoors camping, climbing, caving, and paddling at LC’s Claytor Nature Center in Bedford County and in the Jefferson National Forest at Goshen.
Research in the tropics
Students interested in doing conservation and research in remote tropical locations are invited to hear about Operation Wallacea from intertidal ecologist, Dr. Ian Hendy on Friday, October 28 at 3:30 p.m.
Protecting our watersheds
“Watershed Management: Preservation, Conservation, Mitigation” is the subject of a public forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, in Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center, at Lynchburg College.
The forum is sponsored by The Center for Water Quality at Lynchburg College, directed by Tom Shahady, associate professor of environmental science.
For the birds
David Lewis ’11 spent his summer banding birds, surveying plants and plovers, and teaching children about macroinvertebrates at the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
An environmental science major from Fredericksburg, Va.
